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Laszlo Nussbaum

Laszlo Nussbaum

• He was born in Turda, Romania in 1929 and latermoved to Kolozsvar• The picture is him and his brother, Sandor, in front of his grandfather’s house

Laszlo Nussbaum

• His family had two sides opposite as from his paternal grandparent and maternal grandparent

• He was raised with the religious point of view from his mother and his father did not pray at all

Country• The country while he was living was in the time

of The World War I and II, that was the time Hitler came to power

• The photo was taken in Turda in 1930s. His ma-ternal grandparents’ housewas in the middle of themain square. This is what the house looked like

Political

• It was during the war that Laszlo’s grandfather sent his three boys to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy to protect the nation

• He bought lots of war bonds but lost

in the end

Political

• Hitler came to power at this time and Laszlo’s grandfather died so the whole family had a difficult time during the war

• During the Holocaust, he was sent to concentration camp in Auschwitz (today Poland) and he survived the Holocaust

Religion

• In his father’s side of the family, they came from Austro-Hungarian Jewish family so they had no knowledge of religion

• His father didn’t practice any religious, he didn’t pray at all

Religion

• Laszlo’s grandfather on his mother’s side was, in fact, a very religious man

• He was an Orthodox Jew and he knew that one’s prayers is the most important manifestation

• In the family, religious from the point of view that his mother lit candles on Sabbath

Economy

• During the World War II, the country developed market economy with oil production throughout the world

• They also had some small shops to sell hats, clothes, and fashionable items

• A textile factory also operated there near his grandfather’s house

• There were workers but only a few

Popular Books

• In those times of Jewish publication were edited both in Hungarian and Romanian

• That was not a religious book but one of political, Zionist character

Education

• His grandfather sent his four sons to different places throughout Europe to go to universities

• Laszlo went to Paris for philosophy; his father, Jeno, went to Venice for mathematics; Jozsef moved to Berlin to become a doctor; Sandor studied economics in Prague

• He studied to become a newspaper writer

Laszlo and his family

This picture was taken after the birth of his younger sibling (1931) with his mother Ilona

Nussbaum, his father Jeno Nussbaum and

himself on his father’s lap

The Nussbaum Brothers

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